Angkor Wat’s international reputation has firmly placed Cambodia on the global tourism map. However, as Vichit explains, “Ancient monuments account for only a small percentage of tourism ...

Experts say the statue is the most important to have been found at Angkor Wat in recent years Archaeologists at Cambodia's celebrated Angkor Wat temple complex have unearthed a large statue ...

The box was inscribed with Japanese characters that roughly translate as: “Cambodia, Angkor Wat photos, 150 sheets, Hanazono University.” Notes written in pencil on the backs of photos show ...

Images of the twelfth century temple known today as Angkor Wat have appeared on every Cambodian flag since the country gained its independence from France in l953. Cambodia is the only nation in the ...

Then India, Tibet and the Potala Palace, Burma and the Burma Road, and, of course, the Khmer Empire and Cambodia ... The Galápagos isles and Angkor held the top two spots. Eight years later ...

At first it is no more than an umber smudge in the forest canopy of northern Cambodia. Beneath us sprawls ... came upon the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's ...